Worldwide Guide to Women in LeadershipRepublic of Portugal/ A República
Portugesa (In 1911 Doctor Carolina
Beatriz Ângelo voted for the Constituent Assembly in her capacity as Head of
Family - suffrage was thereafter speficfically restricted to men, until 1931 when women with a superior
or secondary education was allowed to vote, universal suffrage 1976). A
Kingdom until 1910 then a republic

1970-73 Undersecretary of
State of Social Affairs Maria Teresa Carcomo Lobo

1974 Secretary of State of Social
Affairs Maria de Lurdes Ruvio da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo
1974-75 Minister of Social Affairs
1979-80 President of the Government (Premier Minister) (31.7-31.1)
1979-86 Member of Council of State
1986 Presidential Candidate
Dr.
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo was Ambassador to UNESCO 1975-79, Member of the
European Parliament 1987-89, and
lived (1930-2004)

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1975-76 Subsecretary of State for
Public Investments
1976-78 Secretary of State of Finance
1977-78 Secretary of State of in the Ministry of Finance for Taxes
1978 Secretary of State of Finance for the Treasury Maria Manuela Matos Margado
Santiago Batista

1977-78 Secretary of State of
Culture Teresa Dória Monteriro Santa Clara Gomes
1978-79 Secretary of State by the President of the Government

1978-79 Secretary of State of
Labour Maria Manuela Aguiar Dias Moreira Aguiar
1980-81 and 1985-87 Secretary of State Foreign Affairs for Emigration and Portuguese
Communities Abroad
MP since 1980, 1987-91 Vice-President of the Assambleia Nacional, since 1999
Parliamentary Leader of Partido Social Democrato. (b. 1942-)

1978-79 Secretary of State of
Education, Culture and Scientific Research for Basic and Secondary Education
Maria Alice Nobre Gouveia

1979 Secretary of State by the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers for Public Administration Grabiela
Guedes Salgueiro

1980-82 Member the Cabinet of
Vice-Ministers of the President of the GovernmentMargarida do Rego Da Costa e Salema D'Oliviera Martines
She is daughter of Edwardo Maria De Brito Melo e Castabo e Alberquerque Da
Costa e Salema and Maria Do Amapario Simones Be Lima Mello. Married to Olivera
Martines in 1980 and mother of two daughters, Member of Parliament, 1980-85, Member
of the European Parliament from 1989. (b. 1940-)

1980-83 Secretary of State of
Planning and Environment Aurora Margarida de Carvalho Santos Borges de Carvalho

1980-81 Secretary of State of BudgetMaria de Lurdes Orfão de Mateus Correira do Vale

1980-81 Secretary of State of
Family Maria Teresa Paulo Sampaio da Costa Macedo

1980-82 Subsecretary of State in
The Office of the President of Council of Ministers
1982 Subsecretary of Parliamentary Affairs Maria Luísa Falcão Líbano
Monteiro Anras

1982 Secretary of State by the President of the Council of MinistersMaria Leonor Couceiro Pizarro Beleza de
Mendonça Tavares.
1983-85 Secretary of State of Social Affairs
1985-90 Minister of Health
Dra. Leonor Beleza was
Vice-President of Assambleia Nacional 1991-94 and
2002-05, Vice-President of Partido Social Democrata (Centrum-Right) 1990-92
and 1998-99.

1983-83 Secretary of State of
Local Administration
1983-85 Secretary of State of Agriculture Helena de Melo Torres Marques
Former Director General of Regional- and Local Action in the Ministry

1985-87 Secretary of State of
Culture Maria Teresa Pinto Basto Patrício Gouveia
1987-89 Secretary of State by the Premier Minister for Culture
1991-93 Secretary of State of Environment and Natural Resources
1993-95 Minister of Environment 2003-03 Minister of Foreign Affairs
and Portugese Communities
MP from 1987. She was against the appointment of Pedro Santana Lopes as
successor of José Durão Barroso as Prime Minister and resigned from the
government. (b. 1940-).

1987-95 Secretary of State of the
President of the Council of Ministers for Administrative Reform Isabel
Maria Freire dos Santos Côrte-Real

From ca.2002 Isabel Corte-Real has
been Secretary General of the National Assembly.

1987-89 Secretary of State of
Planning and Territorial Administration
1989-95 Secretary of State of Planning and Economic Development Isabel
Maria de Lucena Vasconcelos Cruz de Almeida Mota

1990-93 Secretary of State of
Finance for Budget Maria Manuela Dias Ferreira Leite
1993-95 Minister of Education
2002-04 Minister of State and Minister of Finance
Deputy Parliamentary Leader1996-2001, Party Vice-President 1998-99 and 2001 Parliamentary Leader of the conservative Partido Social Democrata. As Minister of State she was
Second in Command of the Government. She was against the appointment of
the new Prime Minister and
resigned from the government. She resigned from parliament and became a
technical advisor at the Bank of Portugal. Party President 2008-09 and candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the 2009-elections. (b. 1940-).

1990-91 Subsecretary by the
President of the Council of Ministers for Culture Natália Correia Guedes

1991-95 Subsecretary of State by
the President of the Council of Ministers for CultureMaria José Avillez
Nogueira Pinto

1991-95 Secretary of State of
Justice Maria Eduarda de Almeida Azeuedo
Vice-President of Partido Social Democrata since 1999.

1991-95 Secretary of State of
Internal Trade and Tourism Teresa Paula de Oliveira Ricou

1995-99 Minister of Environment
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira
1999-2002 Minister of PlanningElisa Ferreira was Vice-Chairperson of the parliamentary
party of the Socialist Party 2002-03 and from 2004 Member of the
European Parliament. (b. 1955-)

1995 Secretary of State of
Planning and Territorial Administration and Social Provision for Housing and
Communication
1995-2002 Secretary of State of Social Provision for Housing Leonor Coutinho
Pereira dos Santos
Leonor Coutinho is
(b. 1947-)

2001-02 Secretary of State for
Equality by the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Maria do Céu Farrajota
Castanho Lombo da Cunha Regy

2002-04 Minister of Justice Maria
Celeste Ferreira Lopes Cardona

2002-04 Secretary of State in the
Ministry of Finance for Public Administration Suzana Maria de Moura Alves da
Silva Toscano

2002-03Secretary of State of Economy Maria Dulce Farinha Franco Vilhena
de Carvalho

2002-04 Secretary of State of
Commerce, Industry and Services Maria do Rosário Mayoral Machado Simões Ventura
2003-04
Secretary of State of Public Works, Transport and Housing
Maria do Rosário Cardoso Águas
2004 Secretary of State of the Ministry of Social Security, Family and Children
2004-05 Secretary of State of Public Administration in the Ministry of Finance and
Public AdministratioRosário Águas has been a
conservative MP since 2002. (b. 1961-).

2003-04 Secretary of State of
Foreign Affairs for Cooperation Maria Manuela
Franco 2003-04 Secretary of State of Social
Security Teresa Margarida Figueiredo de
Vasconcelos Caeiro
2004-05 Secretary of State of Culture in charge of Art and
Spectacles
Civil Governor of Lisboa 2002-03. 2004 it was first made public that she was
appointed Secretary of State of Defence but the Prime Minister shifted her to
the Ministry of Culture in the last minute. (b. 1969-)

2004 Secretary of State of Cities,
Territorial Planning and Environment in charge of Regional Development Maria Hermínia Cabral de Oliveira

2004-05 Secretary of State of Economic Activities
and Labour in charge of Industry, Commerce and Services Maria da Graça Ferreira
Proença de Carvalho

2004 Secretary of State in the
Ministry of Finance for Public Administration
2004-05 Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Council of
Ministers Sofia de Sequeira Teixeira Galvão
The number of Ministers in the new government formed in 2004 went up from 17 to
19, but the number of female ministers dropped from 4 to 3. At the same time the
number of Secretaries of States went up from 36 to 38, 5 of whom are women, the
same as in the previous government.

2005-09 Minister of Education Maria de Lurdes Reis
Rodrigues
An academic with no political experience. (b. 1956-).

2005-08 Minister of Culture Maria Isabel da Silva Pires de Lima sabel Pires de Lima has been Socialist MP since
1999. (b. 1952-).
Of the 17 ministers in the socialist government with an absolute majority two
are women.
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2005 Secretary of State of Finance
for the Treasury and Finances
Maria dos Anjos Capote

2005-09 Secretary of
state of Transport in the Ministry of Public Works and Communications Ana Paula Vitorino
Of the 34 secretaries of state, 3 were women until 2007, when an additional
woman was appointed.

2005-11 Assistant Secretary of State of
Rehabilitation in the Ministry of Social Security Idália
Maria Marques Salvador Serrão de Menezes MonizNormally known as Idália Moniz

2007-11 Secretary of State of the Ministry of Administration for
Administration Modernisation Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

2015- Minister of the Presidency and Minister of Administrative
Modernisation

2011-15 Minister of Justice Paula Teixeira da CruzPaula
Maria von Hafe Teixeira da Cruz is a lawyer, was Alderman of Lisboa
1998-2002 and President of the Assembleia Municipal 2005-2009 and
Vice-President of the National Political Committee since 2005. (b. 1960-)

2011-15 Minister of Agriculture and The Sea
Assunção Cristas2011-13 Minister of
Environment and Territorial PlanningMaria da Assunção de
Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça has been an MP since 2009 and is
Vice-President of CDS-PP. (b. 1974-)

2011-15 State Secretary Adjunct to the Minister
and Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs Vânia Dias da Silva

2011-15
State Secretary Adjunct to the Minister and Secretary of State of
Defence Berta Maria Correia de Almeida de Melo Cabral

2011-13 Secretary of State of Finance for the Treasury and
the Finances
Maria Luís Albuquerque2013-15 Minister of
State and Minister of
Finance

2011-15 Secretary of State of Parliamentary Affairs and
Equality Teresa Morais2015 Minister of Culture, Equality and
Citizenship
Maria Teresa da Silva Morais has been an MP since 2002.